Though I wish there were more of them. Traffic here (in general terms) is a complete nightmare but it is too civic culture.
‘“The people who designed it understood that in a 7-million-person city like Bogotá, a very small percentage would actually see the mime artists,” says Felipe Cala Buendía, the author of Cultural Producers and Social Change in Latin America. However, Mockus believed in the power of word of mouth.’
Anyone trying this in the U.S. would be arrested, so it was surprising to see. I wonder how the insurance works.
I'm pretty sure the sun is never "blistering" in Bogota.
Mockus was the best mayor Bogotá ever had. Cultura ciudadana, or "Citizen Culture," was the most transformative policy we ever implemented.